Nashville Tenn Apr 15th 

   Sister Emma
            Good Afternoon
How do you do this
afternoon. I hope as
well as I am. for I
am well. This may
find you in [illegible]
whether there or in mich
it will probably be
acceptable. It has been
quite a long time
since I received or
wrote a letter the last
                     we
time I wrote^   were at 
Stanford now we are 
in Ten about a mile
from Nashville your
wishes dont seem to
regulate the army you
know you hoped we
would not go to Ten
well now I will try
and give you a history
of [illegible] our journey
                                       d
We started from Stanfor^
and stayed in Danville
that night the next 
morning for Leebanon
got there the next day
about 7 oclock [crossed out] [in] a.m.
stayed there long enough
to get our green backs
I thought if we going 
to Ten I should want
it I am going to live
if I do not lay up
a cent and we have to
pay for stuff here .80 cts
per lb of butter .60 for (per dol.)
cooked eggs, apples .05 apiece
milk .15 or .20 cts a quart
other things according.
We stayed at Leebanon
2 days sunday morning
we came down to the
[illegible] calculating to
start immediately for
Murfreesboro but the
Col would not give
up the niggers so the
Gen. would not let
us leave he got a K.y.
Regiment out in line
of battle to fight us
                                   d
if we tried it we staye^
there over night then
we started (but we
stayed there so long that
we lost the chance of
going to Murfreesboro)
there were 2 other regime
nts sent ahead of us
so much for the
[illegible] niggers. I
wish they were all
well in Africa that
     place for
is ^ them I have got
perfectly sick of the
sight of one the more
a man has invested
in them the poorer
he is they wont do
us much work in two 
days as one good white
man can in one
The capitol building
in Nashville is a 
splendid building one
of the boys that went
into it said that the
floors were all stone
you will direct your
letters to Nashville
of course write soon
and oblige your brother
                      J.W.